help!!!!!

[tony]

Hi,

Last night I left my PC with XP Pro (sp2 installed) running chkdsk. There
was no fault that I was aware of, it was run s part of my normal
maintainance. This morning I cannot access Windows, I get the screen telling
me that it was incorrectly shut down and I need to select blah, blah, blah.
Whatever I choose, last known good, normal or safe mode takes an absolute
age to load and after the win xp logo screen reboots.
I have tried to do a repair install but setup only gives the option of a
full install. The C: drive is shown as an "unknown" type.
I also tried "fixboot" in the repair console which recognised the drive
initially as "unknown" but after the disk scan recognised it as NTFS, the
correct type.
Anybody know how to get this back to normal?

Thanks

Tony

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

You want to use the recovery console command CHKDSK /R

 

[tony]

Thanks Mark,

I have just tried it and it gets to 50% and ends with a message "The volume
appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems".
Any idea if it is possible to recover this installation or will I have to
reinstall?

Thanks,

Tony

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

I'm not that positive a format or re-partition would help. The disk might be
unrepairable.

 

[tony]

Thanks once again Mark, I'll wait until the shops open again and buy myself
a new HD and install Xp to that and see if the WD disk software will allow
me to recover data.


Regards

Tony